{"title":"Gendered impunity: Complicity and the body as archive in Helium","authors":"S. Krishnamurti","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2139902","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this short essay I read Jaspreet Singh's Helium through Julietta Singh's concept of the body as archive. It is a book about impunity and failed responsibility, but this is deeply gendered. It is the women in the novel who carry trauma in their bodies.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"6 1","pages":"319 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2139902","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ASIAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT In this short essay I read Jaspreet Singh's Helium through Julietta Singh's concept of the body as archive. It is a book about impunity and failed responsibility, but this is deeply gendered. It is the women in the novel who carry trauma in their bodies.